Re: oafd compatibility for GNOME 1 and GNOME 2?

[Peter Williams <peter newton cx>]

Hi Maciej,

On 16 Jun 2001 16:35:10 -0700, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> Hi guys,
> For now, I am making all of the changes to allow parallel install
> _except_ for changing the location where .oaf files are expected to be
> found (since that would require changing other modules and merits
> discussion first).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Maciej

I haven't thought this out too completely, but how about this?

	1. Keep the same oafinfo directory
	2. Make GNOME 2.x oafinfos start with this:

		<oaf_info platform="gnome2">
	3. Have OAF 2 return only oafinfos with platform=gnome2 by 
default
	4. ...unless the query looks like "... && $platform = 'gnome1'"

Then oaf1 will be able to activate GNOME2 components, which as martin
said, is important. (However, as you said, due to incompatibilities the
situation might not be so simple.

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